FENCED IN

I’ve been feeling ‘fenced in’ lately. I’m sure you have too.

The pandemic. The snow. The news. The isolation. It’s difficult for me to imagine a way over this right now.

I was so excited when we finally had a ‘bubble’ of family or friends that could come into our gated fence but then even that was ‘burst’…in more ways than one.

And I’ve been feeling so emotional. I miss my family. I want to see my parents, my children, my grandchildren. I want to hang out with friends. We all do.

I feel broken in some ways. Unhinged maybe.

And like a fence I feel all knotted inside sometimes. People I read about ‘go against the grain’ with their anti-masking, anti-vaccine statements. ( I don’t mean to be ….’ O-Fence-ive’)

My bones are creaky from lack of exercise. And I don’t feel very appealing….just ‘peeling’ with all this dry cold.

I know that these fences are here for a reason. I know we need them. I just can’t wait till I can swing open the gate and run into your arms. What joy we will experience that day! We will hug…A LOT! We will laugh and have tea together, link arms and walk side by side in the sunshine. We won’t mention each other’s weight gain and we will be thankful. SO thankful for what we have survived and what we have before us. We will sit close and bounce the baby on our laps. We might be reckless and go to one too many restaurants one week. We will go to the theatre and we will sing in church. We will GO to church anytime we want! We will thank God for our lives and the lives of all whom we love.

It will be incredible. And I’m not on the fence about this.